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Jalisco, [a] officially the Free and Sovereign State of Jalisco, [b] is one of the 31 states which, along with Mexico City, comprise the 32 Federal Entities of Mexico. It is located in western Mexico and is bordered by six states, Nayarit , Zacatecas , Aguascalientes , Guanajuato , Michoacán , and Colima .
The term birria was originally the regional name given in Jalisco to meats cooked in a pit or earth oven, what is known in other parts of México as barbacoa.. Cuban-Mexican writer Félix Ramos y Duarte defined the term in 1898 as a regionalism from Mexico City for goat barbacoa or roasted goat. [12]
Guadalajara (/ ˌ ɡ w ɑː d əl ə ˈ h ɑːr ə / GWAH-də-lə-HAR-ə; [5] Spanish: [ɡwaðalaˈxaɾa] ⓘ) is a city in western Mexico and the capital of the state of Jalisco.According to the 2020 census, the city has a population of 1,385,629 people, making it the 8th most populous city in Mexico, while the Guadalajara metropolitan area has a population of 5,268,642 people, [6] [7] making ...
(US) A rural person with a "glorious lack of sophistication" (from the slang term for "peanut") Guajiro (Cuba) A rural person from Cuba. Hillbilly (US) A rural white person, esp. one from Appalachia or the Ozarks. Redneck (US) A rural white person. There are varying possible etymologies for this term. Primarily used to denote lower-class rural ...
Distinct Puerto Rican words like "jevo,", "jurutungo" and "perreo" have been submitted to Spain's Royal Academy- considered the global arbiter of the Spanish language.
In other places in Latin America, it retained its original derogatory meaning. In Puerto Rico, charro is a generally accepted slang term to mean that someone or something is obnoxiously out of touch with social or style norms, similar to the United States usage of dork(y), (i.e gaudy).
The term "son" is given to a category of Mexican folk music which covers a variety of styles that vary by region. However, these styles share a number of common characteristics in its rhythms, lyrics and dance. [1] The music is a mix of Spanish, African and indigenous elements, which mingled at least as far back as the 18th century. [1]
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